JS Rajkumar
JS Rajkumar is the founder of Lifeline Group of Hospitals and is known to have set up the first Stem Cell Unit in Chennai, India.[1]Rajkumar graduated from Madras Medical College and after his post graduation trained in the United Kingdom under senior surgeons on advanced general surgery and hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery.[2]
He has been conferred with the Vaidya Ratna Award from President Abdul Kalam.[3] Rajkumar’s compilation of poems and short stories has been published as a book titled Scalpel Scribbles.[4]
Rajkumar of Chennai is the first Indian surgeon who performed air surgery live with the use of Google Glass. The surgery performed was upper gastro-intestinal laparoscopy on a 45 year old man. The complete procedure was live streamed for doctors, surgeons, medical students and press who were sitting outside operating field 500 meters away.[5] Though this process was used abroad frequently but in India was performed for the first time in 2013.
Rajkumar, along with a few other doctors, helped save the life of a 46-year-old surgeon on board a Kolkata-Chennai flight. The surgeon fell unconscious and lost pulse and was revived using the technique of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).[6]
He has been the Chairman of the Association of Surgeons of India, TN&P chapter for the year 2011-12.[7]
References
- ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Chennai's Lifeline". Financial Express. Retrieved 2009.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Running a Scalpel Through His Memories". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ "Chennai Chief surgeon J.S. Rajkumar becomes first in country to air surgery live via Google Glass". DNA India. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "A blow at 30,000 feet saves dying doctor on flight". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ "Prof J S Rajkumar". IJCP Group. Retrieved 2014.
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